Technical Leadership Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 167 173
Rank change year-on-year +31 +6 +55
Permanent jobs citing Technical Leadership 858 576 1,108
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.31% 2.00% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.18% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 597 397 713
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £69,235
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +8.33% +2.57%
75th Percentile £86,253 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% +6.90% -9.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Technical Leadership falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,509 26,449 57,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.06% 92.02% 83.48%
Number of salaries quoted 29,799 13,959 41,086
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £27,117
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Technical Leadership.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Technical Leadership in the UK excluding London

Technical Leadership
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +12 256 £75,000 - 150
North of England +5 179 £75,000 - 119
Midlands +6 110 £65,000 -10.34% 76
South West -8 103 £77,500 +14.81% 76
North West +14 89 £77,500 +3.33% 64
East of England +42 81 £62,550 -12.21% 47
Yorkshire -34 71 £73,500 -5.16% 31
West Midlands -14 67 £65,000 -11.86% 48
Northern Ireland +10 56 £82,500 - 6
East Midlands -2 43 £65,000 - 28
Scotland +6 38 £74,200 -0.89% 23
Wales -25 35 £67,500 -10.00% 14
North East -24 19 £70,000 -4.76% 24
Technical Leadership
UK

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 61 (7.11%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.93%) Confluence
4 7 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.58%) Appian
6 5 (0.58%) CMS
7 4 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.23%) Apache
8 2 (0.23%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Camunda
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 46 (5.36%) AutoCAD
2 32 (3.73%) Revit
3 16 (1.86%) CATIA
4 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.23%) Weka
5 2 (0.23%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 5 (0.58%) Visualfiles
2 4 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.47%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) HFM
4 1 (0.12%) Maximo
4 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 264 (30.77%) Azure
2 164 (19.11%) AWS
3 82 (9.56%) Microsoft 365
4 53 (6.18%) GCP
5 52 (6.06%) Power Platform
6 51 (5.94%) SaaS
7 38 (4.43%) Entra ID
8 34 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (3.50%) Power Automate
9 30 (3.50%) PowerApps
10 26 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 25 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
12 22 (2.56%) Serverless
13 21 (2.45%) OneDrive
14 20 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 20 (2.33%) Mimecast
15 19 (2.21%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 19 (2.21%) PaaS
16 17 (1.98%) GitHub
17 10 (1.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.36%) TETRA
2 42 (4.90%) Firewall
3 29 (3.38%) Broadband
4 27 (3.15%) DNS
4 27 (3.15%) WAN
5 21 (2.45%) VPN
6 14 (1.63%) LAN
6 14 (1.63%) Network Security
7 12 (1.40%) DHCP
8 8 (0.93%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.93%) VLAN
8 8 (0.93%) Wireless
9 7 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
9 7 (0.82%) MPLS
10 6 (0.70%) BGP
10 6 (0.70%) HTTP
10 6 (0.70%) LTE
10 6 (0.70%) SNMP
10 6 (0.70%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.43%) SQL Server
2 27 (3.15%) Power BI
3 26 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (2.68%) Metadata
5 21 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (1.86%) NoSQL
6 16 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.05%) Redis
8 8 (0.93%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (0.70%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.58%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.47%) Big Data
11 4 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.47%) GIS
12 3 (0.35%) ClickHouse
12 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.23%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.23%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 48 (5.59%) JIRA
2 46 (5.36%) Rational DOORS
3 35 (4.08%) Git
4 15 (1.75%) GitLab
5 6 (0.70%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.70%) JMeter
5 6 (0.70%) JUnit
5 6 (0.70%) Mockito
6 5 (0.58%) Apache Continuum
6 5 (0.58%) Selenium
7 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.47%) Locust
7 4 (0.47%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.35%) Maven
8 3 (0.35%) NUnit
8 3 (0.35%) Rational Rhapsody
8 3 (0.35%) XCUITest
9 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.23%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.23%) Vagrant
General
1 188 (21.91%) Social Skills
2 115 (13.40%) Finance
3 51 (5.94%) Public Sector
4 37 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (4.08%) Legal
6 34 (3.96%) Aerospace
7 33 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (3.03%) Games
9 24 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (2.45%) Law
11 18 (2.10%) Electronics
12 15 (1.75%) Military
13 12 (1.40%) Banking
13 12 (1.40%) Marketing
14 11 (1.28%) Retail
15 10 (1.17%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.58%) Publishing
17 5 (0.58%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.35%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 348 (40.56%) Lead
2 168 (19.58%) Senior
3 143 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
4 115 (13.40%) Architect
5 104 (12.12%) Developer
6 100 (11.66%) Principal Engineer
7 68 (7.93%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 63 (7.34%) Software Engineer
9 60 (6.99%) Technical Leader
10 54 (6.29%) Lead Developer
11 43 (5.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 42 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
13 39 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
13 39 (4.55%) Senior Developer
14 38 (4.43%) Lead Systems Engineer
15 32 (3.73%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 31 (3.61%) Project Engineer
16 31 (3.61%) Team Leader
17 27 (3.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 27 (3.15%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (9.79%) .NET
2 45 (5.24%) React
3 31 (3.61%) HTML
4 30 (3.50%) .NET Core
4 30 (3.50%) Node.js
5 28 (3.26%) CSS
6 26 (3.03%) JSON
7 22 (2.56%) SPFx
8 20 (2.33%) HTML5 Canvas
8 20 (2.33%) REST
9 19 (2.21%) AngularJS
9 19 (2.21%) Microsoft Graph
10 16 (1.86%) RESTful
11 14 (1.63%) PySpark
12 13 (1.52%) Spring
12 13 (1.52%) Vue
13 12 (1.40%) ASP.NET
14 9 (1.05%) .NET Framework
14 9 (1.05%) ASP.NET Core
15 8 (0.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 81 (9.44%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.64%) Product Ownership
3 43 (5.01%) Onboarding
4 35 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (3.61%) Mobile App
6 22 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.33%) Acoustics
7 20 (2.33%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (1.86%) Embedded Systems
9 15 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
10 14 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.52%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.82%) Driving Licence
13 7 (0.82%) FPGA
13 7 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.82%) PKI
14 6 (0.70%) Augmented Reality
14 6 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (7.23%) Windows
2 31 (3.61%) Apple iOS
3 30 (3.50%) Linux
4 27 (3.15%) Android
5 26 (3.03%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.05%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.58%) Unix
8 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (34.73%) Mentoring
2 207 (24.13%) Agile
3 189 (22.03%) CI/CD
4 177 (20.63%) Software Engineering
5 154 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 141 (16.43%) DevOps
7 138 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
8 128 (14.92%) AI
9 124 (14.45%) Roadmaps
10 98 (11.42%) Systems Engineering
11 92 (10.72%) Coaching
12 82 (9.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 81 (9.44%) Decision-Making
14 79 (9.21%) Observability
15 72 (8.39%) Stakeholder Management
16 67 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
16 67 (7.81%) Microservices
17 64 (7.46%) Machine Learning
17 64 (7.46%) Project Delivery
18 60 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 130 (15.15%) SQL
2 114 (13.29%) Python
3 86 (10.02%) JavaScript
4 80 (9.32%) C#
5 71 (8.28%) TypeScript
6 55 (6.41%) Java
7 39 (4.55%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.10%) C++
9 16 (1.86%) R
10 15 (1.75%) C
11 10 (1.17%) Scala
12 7 (0.82%) Bash
13 6 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.58%) Bicep
14 5 (0.58%) PHP
15 3 (0.35%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.35%) Swift
15 3 (0.35%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.23%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 103 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 93 (10.84%) Degree
3 71 (8.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 69 (8.04%) SC Cleared
5 44 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 35 (4.08%) Chartered Engineer
7 21 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.98%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (0.93%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.70%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.58%) CCIE
13 4 (0.47%) HNC
13 4 (0.47%) HND
13 4 (0.47%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.24%) Accessibility
2 42 (4.90%) Data Quality
3 40 (4.66%) QA
4 31 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 23 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 10 (1.17%) GDPR
8 8 (0.93%) SLA
9 7 (0.82%) NIST
10 6 (0.70%) JSP 440
10 6 (0.70%) NCSC
11 5 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 5 (0.58%) WCAG
12 4 (0.47%) PMO
13 3 (0.35%) DO-178B
13 3 (0.35%) IEC 61508
13 3 (0.35%) ISO 26262
14 2 (0.23%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
System Software
1 60 (6.99%) Active Directory
2 41 (4.78%) Docker
3 30 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.21%) Hyper-V
5 13 (1.52%) Firmware
6 9 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.58%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.23%) UAG
10 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.23%) vSphere
11 1 (0.12%) GPFS
11 1 (0.12%) Lustre
11 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 55 (6.41%) Terraform
2 42 (4.90%) Kubernetes
3 24 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.05%) Proxmox
4 9 (1.05%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 7 (0.82%) Grafana
6 6 (0.70%) Endace
7 5 (0.58%) Puppet
8 4 (0.47%) Ansible
8 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.47%) vRealize
9 3 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.35%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.23%) Control-M
10 2 (0.23%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.23%) Packer
10 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 131 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.31%) Databricks
2 37 (4.31%) VMware
3 29 (3.38%) IBM
4 23 (2.68%) Oracle
5 22 (2.56%) Cisco
6 20 (2.33%) Adobe
7 19 (2.21%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.86%) CrowdStrike
9 14 (1.63%) Google
10 8 (0.93%) Red Hat
10 8 (0.93%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.70%) F5
11 6 (0.70%) Juniper
11 6 (0.70%) SAP
11 6 (0.70%) SolarWinds
12 5 (0.58%) Avaya
12 5 (0.58%) Foundry
12 5 (0.58%) HP
12 5 (0.58%) Talend